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Library Hosts Fall Gardening Talk as Muppet Movie Screening Canceled

Bolton Public Library hosted a free fall gardening talk Saturday as a planned Muppet Treasure Island screening was canceled. Blackstone Valley Veggie Gardens led the interactive "Closing the Garden for the Season" lecture from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., teaching residents how to prepare veget…

BOLTON — Bolton Public Library hosted a free fall gardening workshop from Blackstone Valley Veggie Gardens on Saturday, while a planned family movie screening was canceled the same afternoon.

COMMUNITY & ARTS

Blackstone Valley Veggie Gardens led an interactive lecture at the library Saturday morning titled "Closing the Garden for the Season," walking attendees through the steps to prepare vegetable beds for winter and set up for a stronger spring. The session, open to gardeners of all experience levels, ran from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. in the library's program room.

The library's planned Throwback Theater screening of "Muppet Treasure Island," billed as a Talk Like a Pirate Day tie-in for families, was canceled Saturday afternoon. Earlier in the morning, the library's weekly Tiny Tunes storytime for children age 3 and under went on as scheduled.

COMING UP

The Bolton Council on Aging sponsors a Retirement Planning Seminar at the library on Wednesday, September 23, from 6 to 7 p.m., featuring financial professional Scott Cicerone of Centinel Financial Group. That same evening, teens can drop in for a Lynn Painter book-themed craft in the Adult and YA browsing area from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday, September 24, the Nashoba Neighbors board meets at the library from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m., a bear-themed "Bear-y Sleepy Storytime" for Fat Bear Week runs from 6 to 6:30 p.m., and the library's Senior Book Discussion Group for those 55 and older meets from 7 to 8 p.m. The library's Babies & Bubbles program for infants returns Friday, September 25, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.


Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.

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